 Ian Horsley
WP1/15 Vice-Chair I BT
Ian Horsley is a BT Distinguished Engineer responsible for access network research. His team focusses on the future of PON technologies, reducing power consumption, speeding up and reducing the cost of rollout and management of FTTP technologies. He is active in ITU-T SG15 and FSAN. |
Han Li
China Mobile
Dr Han Li graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and obtained his Ph.D in 2002. He got the professorate senior engineer in 2015. He is currently the director of the China Mobile Research Institute. Dr Li is active in SG15 and in the IETF.
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Kazuhide Nakajima
Rapporteur Q5/15 I NTT
Kazuhide Nakajima joined NTT, Japan, in 1994, where he was engaged in research on optical fiber design and related measurement techniques. He is currently a Senior Distinguished Researcher at NTT. He has been a Rapporteur of Q5/SG15 of ITU-T since 2009.
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 Jordan Melzer
Telus
Jordan Melzer holds a bachelor's degree in engineering science from the University of Toronto, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in communications from the University of Southern California. He currently serves as a Network Architect with TELUS Communications, Canada. Jordan has previously worked on coding and modulation products at TrellisWare Technologies and radio access networks at Nortel Networks. He has coauthored several dozen academic and industry publications and is an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine.
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Bhushan Padhiar
AT&T
Bhushan Padhiar is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T labs, where he is leading Broadband Strategy and ideation roadmap. Bhushan is an active participant in ITU-T SG15/Q2 and Full-Service Access Network (FSAN).
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Glenn Parsons
Chair, ITU-T SG15
Glenn Parsons is an internationally known expert in mobile transport and Ethernet technology. He is a principal standards advisor with Ericsson Canada, where he coordinates standards strategy and policy for Ericsson, including network architecture for 5G radio transport networks. Previously, he has held positions in development, product management and standards architecture in the ICT industry. Over the past number of years, he has held several management and editor positions in various standards activities including IETF, IEEE, and ITU-T. He is currently involved with 5G transport standardization in IEEE and ITU-T and is the chair if ITU-T SG15 as well as the working group chair of IEEE 802.1. In addition, he is a member of the IEEE Standards Association Entity Collaborative Activities Governance Board, and the chair of External Relations for IEEE Canada. He graduated in 1992 with a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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 Venkatesh Sampath
ITU-R SG5/WP5A Vice-Chair I Ericsson, Canada
Venkatesh Sampath joined Ericsson Canada in January 2008, and is currently working as the Director of Regulatory Affairs and Standards Policy. In this role, Mr. Sampath has the dual responsibility of coordinating Government and Industry Relations (GIR) and carrying out technology and standardization activities related to present and future mobile wireless networks. Mr. Sampath works closely with Industry Canada and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on spectrum and technology matters. He is the Chair of the Canadian Evaluation Group and is a Canadian delegate to the ITU. Prior to Ericsson, Mr. Sampath worked as a private consultant from 2003-2007 for various companies both in the United States (Nexius, Nextel, Flarion Technologies) and Canada (Oz Communications, Trio Capital) in a mainly technology capacity such as the testing of base-station and user equipment to get the CE mark, laboratory and field testing of Flash-OFDM networks. Between 1996 and 2002, Mr. Sampath was with Microcell Telecommunications, where he was Director of the R&D/Standardization group. Mr. Sampath holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering – both from Université Laval (Québec city). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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Shen Shikui
China Unicom
Dr. Shen Shikui, joined China Unicom in 2011 after receiving his Ph.D from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). His work is focused on optical network standardization and applications. Dr Shen has participated in ITU-T SG15 since 2012.
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